Primorsk takes the torch from Tuapse: NASA satellites confirm fresh fires at Russia's largest Baltic oil export terminal

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Source: Euromaidan Press

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's largest Baltic oil export terminal at Primorsk overnight on 2-3 May 2026, igniting fires that NASA satellites confirmed at the port — Leningrad Oblast governor Aleksandr Drozdenko later acknowledged the strike, calling Primorsk "the key target" of the attack. The strike ends nearly a month of relative quiet at Primorsk and follows the fourth consecutive Ukrainian drone strike on Rosneft's refinery and oil export complex in Tuapse on the Black Sea coast on 1 May.

Russia's two largest Baltic oil export ports, Primorsk and Ust-Luga, together handle about 2 million barrels of Russian crude per day — roughly 40% of Russia's seaborne oil exports.Both lie roughly 900-1,000 km from the Ukrainian border. Ukraine's deep-strike campaign on Russia's oil infrastructure has pushed Russian refinery output to multi-year lows.

What happened overnight

Ukrainian Telegram monitoring channel Exilenova+ shared early-morning footage of a Liutyi-looking strike drone flying through a residential area of Leningrad Oblast in dark skies, captioned simply: "Leningrad Oblast." Another monitoring channel, Supernova+, posted footage at 03:56 showing a fire in a field and an apparent anti-aircraft engagement, with the channel commenting that air defenses were active in the region and "the ports are under attack."

Read more: https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/primorsk-takes-the-torch-from-tuapse-nasa-satellites-confirm-fresh-fires-at-russias-largest-baltic-oil-export-terminal/

[erronis]

1. While I hate the pollution of all the burning russian oil, I applaud the forces of Ukraine.

Slava Ukraini!

Hey, DU - when can we start entering non-ASCII characters in our posts?

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2. I agree

The pollution aspect is bad but as the late Senator John McCain said, Russia is a "gas station masquerading as a country." The way to defeat Russia is not just militarily, it's through economy. The results from this strategy is proving successful for Ukraine. Even Ukrainian social media posters who have been somewhat gloomy over the war situation are now expressing optimism and some are even smiling. Smiles I haven't witnessed in a long time. And Russian social media posters are outright furious or defeatist concerning the situation.

The sooner this foolish Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is over the better for the environment and the world in general.

[Igel]

4. You can cut and paste.

Like this:

Слава Україні!

Or just type, like this:

Это можно делать теперь.


On edit: I'm on a Windows 11 machine and have the appropriate keyboard modules installed for Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Polish. (Oh, and Spanish.)

[erronis]

5. Thanks, lgel. I think you have pointed me towards my problem. I'm using Linux and Firefox.

Probably something with the interactions with DU. (I don't have these problems with other web sites, however.)

[Wonder Why]

3. Ukraine is getting Russia "All Fired Up"!